- days, minutess = datetime:base90()
- datetime:setBase90(days, minutes)
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Older Teratronik systems often handle dates as an offset from 1990, Jan. 1st and times as the number of
minutes since midnight. These functions are used to set and get this datetime format.
RETURN VALUE
datetime:base90() returns the number of days since 1990-01-01 and the number of
minutes since midnight.
ERRORS
Raises an error if datetime is not a datetime instance.
EXAMPLE
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d = clock.newDatetime(2005, 03, 18, 1, 58, 31)
print(d, d:base90())
2005-03-18T01:58:31 5555 118
SEE ALSO
clock.currentDateTime, clock.newDateTime, clock.setDateTime, clock.tzget, clock.tzset, datetime(), datetime:addDays, datetime:addMonths, datetime:addSecs, datetime:addYears, datetime:toTime_t, datetime:date, datetime:day, datetime:daysTo, datetime:format, datetime:hour, datetime:isNull, datetime:isValid, datetime:isdst, datetime:minute, datetime:month, datetime:msec, datetime:offset, datetime:second, datetime:secsTo, datetime:set, datetime:setTime_t, datetime:time, datetime:toLocal, datetime:toUTC, datetime:year, datetime:zone, tostring(datetime)